Obama, the Election and Threats of Violence
About the Author: I also write under the names Rudi Stettner and Magdeburger Joe. My home websites are rudistettner.com and magdeburgerjoe.com. Through my writing I like to promote a "labour conservative " social outlook as well as my eclectic tastes and interests Read more from this authorIt is with reluctance that I bring up this topic at election time. There has been discussion of the prospect of unrest and even rioting if Barack Obama is not elected. I live in an area where enthusiasm for Obama is very high. I understand the excitement generated by the possibility of an African American becoming president. Every child should be able to aspire to the presidency or any other lofty position if he or she is resolute and hard working.
I do not take lightly the threat of riots. I have lived through them before. My windows were broken and several of my friends suffered serious physical injury. Two people were killed during the Crown Heights riots. There was millions of dollars in property damage. As frightening as the Crown Heights riots were, they paled in significance next to the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, in which fifty people were killed.
I take the threat of riots seriously. I take it personally. Barack Obama raised a million dollars for a candidate in Kenya who claimed to be related to him. He had a personal liason in his Senate office to Raila Odinga, who narrowly lost. During “protests” , fifteen hundred people were killed and eight hundred churches were burned. I am sure Obama is troubled by the violence perpetrated by supporters of Raila Odinga, for whom he campaigned and raised funds. I only wish he would vigourously repudiate any talk of unrest in the event of an Obama loss . Odinga, Obama’s man in Kenya urged his followers to protest the results of the Kenyan election count. Did he know where it would eventually lead? Thousands were injured and homeless, as well as hundreds killed.
We riot after Basketball games, we riot after football games, we riot because the police beat up a worthless drug dealer. There will be riots if Barack wins. There will be riots if he doesn’t win.
Did I ever give anyone here my theory on how this planet is an insane asylum for the aliens ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_riots
There will be rioting, sad to say. I have been reading articles written by liberals telling them to have their bags packed and if McCain wins, it will be a lie. They need to go straight away to DC and shut down the government until Obama is placed in the White House. What I am seeing through this whole election cycle is a whole group of Americans that don’t care how they play the game as long as they win. I am telling all my friends to vote early and leave the cities before election day.
No matter who wins this election it is still done by the votes of americans.People need to stop trying to make this a war of the races we are all in this for one reason to better america and riots and violence is not showing anything this country stands for what happend to one nation